Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 20 shown for “Myron W. Filley” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 14:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Statuette of a canid-headed god, probably Anubis
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Myron W. Filley
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1865

Rebecca, Charley and Rosa, Slave Children from New Orleans
Myron H. Kimball · 1863–64

Cabinet card of an unidentified girl
Artist not stated in the record · 1892-1893

Painted Panel with Isis and Nephthys
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Desmatodon obtusifolius (Schwägr.) Mathieu
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1958

Emancipated Slaves Brought from Louisiana by Colonel George H. Hanks
Myron H. Kimball · December 1863

Aphanorhegma serratum (Hook. & Hook.) Sull.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1959

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard
Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Sherd
Artist not stated in the record · 15th-16th century?

Two-handled Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century CE

Sherd
Artist not stated in the record · 15th-16th century?

Standing man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century CE

Sherd
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century?

Feast Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Sherd
Artist not stated in the record · 15th-16th century?

Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Sherd
Artist not stated in the record · 15th-16th century?

Myron Charles Taylor
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1929

Myron T. Herrick
Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, 27 Nov 1878 - 29 Sep 1931 · 1925
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 29 matched · 24 examined · 15 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 911725 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 14:29 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.